Louet Octado Instructions Manual
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38If you advanced the cloth too far, you can reverse it as follows:- Release the warp tension by pushing the brake pedal.- Take both ratchets out of the ratchet wheel of the cloth beam and turn the beam backwards.- Return the ratchets into the ratchet wheel again.- While pushing the brake pedal down, beam the warp back onto the warp beam.- Beam up the cloth until the spring arms reach their vertical position in which they produce thewarp tension that you have previously chosen for your weaving project.If you beamed back too far, advance the cloth to its proper position.Points of attention1. Do not remove the ties from the bundles of heddles before the shafts bars or something else hasbeen put into the heddle loops. The ties are required to keep the heddles properly organized.2. Do not leave the cross sticks in the warp between the back beam and the shafts, while weaving.The effective depth of the loom would be reduced and the warp would be subjected to anexcessive amount of tension when creating the shed. If you are used to leaving your cross sticksin the warp, you have to attach them to the two eyelets at the back of the loom. The cross-stickswill then stay between the back beam and the warp beam when you advance the cloth.3. For the mechanical dobby, do not change the dobby position while you push the treadle thatcreates the shed. The treadle for the dobby system and the treadle for the shed are interlocked.Only one can be operated at a time, the other is then locked. However, you can change thedobby by hand when the shed treadle is pushed down. Should this accidentally happen, or if thedobby knife becomes stuck between the screw heads for some other reason, you can easilyundo this situation: Turn the knob for manual operation 45 degrees and push down the shedtreadle and then let the treadle go up again.4. The frontal shafts move less and are subjected to less force. If you do not use all the shafts, it isadvisable to leave the shafts in the rear un-used.5. It is very important that the steel guides at the ends of the shafts are properly placed into theshaft bars and that the cords are lying in the grooves of the bars.6. Check that the washers are underneath the wing nuts, where the top beater bar is attached tothe supports. If the washer is located in between the beater bar and the support, it will make thebeater unstable and the wing nut will damage the wood.MaintenanceThe Octado requires no special maintenance. However we do advise to check the tightness of allbolts, nuts and screws after a couple of months. This is particularly important when the loom isstanding in a dry environment. Repeat this once a year.Trouble shootingIf the knife makes a noise while moving, a drop of sewing machine oil on the ends that run in thegroves will solve the problem.A shaft is slantedPossible cause:- The clamp that fixes the shaft side to the cord has become loose.The screws in the clamps have a Phillips head, so the screwdriver that is supplied with the loom willnot fit properly, but most cross head screw drivers are Phillips head and will fit. Let all shafts rest intheir lowest position and fix the clamp to the shaft side by tightening the screw.If it should occur that a shaft is lose at both sides, you have to take care that the dobby hook for thatshaft is in line with the other dobby hooks during the time you are fixing the shaft sides to the cords.A shaft that should stay down, comes up when you make a shedPossible cause:- The dobby hook of the faulty shaft did not come high enough after the previous shed. The screwhead should snap back above the blocking plate. Because the screw head stays against the |
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